Unit 5.2 – Interactive Rhyming Couplets

JQ guides the students through a series of interactive couplets rapped over a beat that contain the poetic devices we just learned about. Join along in your class and follow the instructions in the video to also rap along to these couplets. The same beats we use in the video are available in the beat folder. The students then explicate each couplet identifying the poetic devices they contain.

• Previous Unit
• Table of Contents
  • 1 – Add-Rap-Tation Intro
  • 2 – What is Add-Rap-Tation?
  • 3.1 – Shakespeare’s Othello
  • 3.2 – Q Brothers’ Othello: The Remix
  • 4 – Shakespeare Basics
  • 5.1 Modern Hip Hop and Poetic Devices
  • 5.2 – Interactive Rhyming Couplets
  • 6 – Write your own couplet
  • 7.1 – Adapting the Balcony Scene
  • 7.2 – Writing Collaboratively: Example of Benny and Cece
  • 7.3 – Writing Collaboratively: Example of Pepperoni and Pocket
  • 8 – How to Perform Your Adaptations
  • 9 – Reflection and Empowerment
  • 10 – Conclusion and Your Next Assignment
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